luchuan 4w ago • 100%
It does from time to time. You'll see "pushed" (ie really good and hard to get) cards come out and enjoy their time and then either they get banned or the synergistic cards that make them format warping get banned.
I don't even mind that aspect of the product cycle that much. I enjoy they competitive aspect and some strategies can and will be better than others.
But the cards that define the format being inaccessible AND this type of product design that's endemic to the CCG business model really sucks. And IRL play is so much better than sims, especially if you're trying to improve at the game too.
luchuan 4w ago • 100%
I hate the business model of these card games. The gameplay is usually pretty good and the competitive aspect is nice. But the competitive chase cards being at predatory distributions in the product really turned me off to the whole thing.
luchuan 2mo ago • 100%
I've only ever had to badge into places, never out.
luchuan 2mo ago • 100%
All the wannabe crypto influencers were quiet on my feed for a while after prices crashed in late 2022. Gen ai bullshit could not have arrived at a better time for them. They all pivoted to being ai experts immediately.
luchuan 2mo ago • 100%
Didn't he and the uncommitted delegates get kicked out? Unless he joined the clapping seals to cheer the genocide, what's the issue?
luchuan 2mo ago • 100%
This is all to backfill unrealized losses banks were carrying that were responsiblish for the bank runs we saw last summer too right?
luchuan 2mo ago • 100%
The children yearn to lie about the operational status of the frosty machine.
luchuan 2mo ago • 100%
Have you considered it's only 2% inflation in this year of our lord 2024? I have no raise and I must scream.
luchuan 2mo ago • 100%
The proliferation of android as a platform has made it too easy for these companies to shit out garbage iot devices that connect to the internet for reasons unintelligible even to God.
luchuan 2mo ago • 100%
Days after the attack, in October 2022, Germany’s foreign secret service received a second tipoff about the Ukrainian plot from the CIA, which again passed on a report by the Dutch military intelligence agency MIVD. It offered a detailed account of the attack, including the type of boat used and the possible route taken by the crew, according to German and Dutch officials.
Oh ya the CIA totally didn't plan it. They just caught wind of it and asked for the plug to be pulled but only told foreign interference agencies afterwards.
luchuan 2mo ago • 100%
The inflation is only 2% narrative is so frustrating. It's not like previous years' price hikes went away.
luchuan 2mo ago • 100%
Damn, it really is all projection. I was wondering where the Chinese doping witch hunt had come from. I guess I have my answer now.
luchuan 2mo ago • 100%
It's a comedy of errors for sure. I remember reading a while ago that the people with the skills and degrees to work these chip fab jobs are getting peeled off to just write javascript for the same or greater pay and a fraction of the effort too. You can't even just try to break these labor aristocrats because they will just write javascript instead. And the javascript developers shit out labor discipline software. So just like cops they get disproportionate pay to everyone around them for protecting capital.
luchuan 3mo ago • 100%
I was sitting a few rows behind some rowdy British teens on holiday the other day and between skibbidi and the British slang, I understood none of what they had said. Is this what getting old feels like?
luchuan 3mo ago • 100%
I hate javascript. I hate javascript. I hate javascript.
Javascript and mobile apps will not fix structural issues in society.
People who suggest otherwise should be conscripted to build public housing and throw eggs at nimbys at city council hearings.
luchuan 3mo ago • 100%
Idk about stores of modern weapons, but a lot of retired stuff in warehouses are gone in a demonic iphone upgrade program at the public's expense where any piece of aged equipment was donated to make room in a warehouse for Raytheon's tank du jour.
luchuan 3mo ago • 100%
Silly liberals, dudes on walls went out of fashion when the cannons became mainstream jajaja.
Speaking of cannons what's the artillery ratio between the two sides again?
luchuan 3mo ago • 100%
Holy moly the amount of racism.
luchuan 4mo ago • 100%
I'm surprised they're turning on him and raising the issue at all. He didn't seem substantially worse than his 2020 campaign run and Axios (I think) had already floated the "staffers privately tell us he's senile" piece earlier in his term but it didn't seem to stick. His current state can't be a surprise to power brokers so why hang him out to dry now?
I suspect they're trying to avoid a primary. The 2020 election showed the average democrat voter is too dumb to pick up on media hints to the insiders' favorite candidate and the average well-established democrat is too greedy and delusional of their own personal brand recognition to step aside. The pipeline of "chosen ones" that can be legitimized without much pushback at the convention seems empty.
Someone really saw all the medical gofundmes and thought that would be a great standalone business...
A fantastic and inspiring interview with activist and organizer Jonathan Melrod, author of the titular _Fighting Times_.
To the surprise of no one, these things that probabilistically generate strings of text make shit up. Sure it's biased towards previously written strings of words which are hopefully true but no reason something "correctish" can't be shit out.
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/2607691 > Beyond parody at this point.
It's the Chinese who are cheating, stealing, and whatever else tho.
Westerners are ignorant. What a shocker.
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1558679 > Meanwhile: > > ![](https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/929d4066-f7a4-4e46-9803-b431ce658e33.jpeg)
This is so cringe. Idk how the dronies who support this even watch.
Another banger from Hudson about the largely fictitious FIRE (finance, insurance, and real estate) economy the the imperial core bourgeoisie have nurtured over the last several decades.
This won't backfire, I'm sure. It'll be different this time. Trust me bro.
Something something, paper tiger, Mao was right.
I'm shocked they're doing this given how much money institutions lost.
The only thing surprising here is that Italian authorities caught them.
I learned some python to help me automate spreadsheet bullshit at work and wanted to try building something more substantial like a blog type site. It was more fun to build than to write for so not much there haha
> The U.S. is increasing the temperature that will - in the end - boil the proverbial frog. My anxiety is also being boiled gfdi